Like the pink and yellow roses that bear her name and grow in her beloved
garden estate, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch was remembered at a state memorial
service in Melbourne yesterday for living a life “always in full bloom”.

Rupert Murdoch led the tributes to his mother, the matriarch of the media
dynasty, who passed away this month at the age of 103, surrounded by her
family at her Cruden Farm homestead on the Mornington Peninsula.

The News Corporation chief executive said that his mother, born eight years
after Australia’s federation in 1901, represented the best in the national
character.